Missing Control Panel feature?

JimL wrote:

> XP Pro SP3 up to the minute updates
>
> I'm looking at a Micrisoft Help that tells me go to:
>
> Start -> Control Panel -> Performance and Maintenance -> System -> Drive
> -> Settings
>
> It insructs me to set a usage slider.
>
> I have available:
>
> Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> System
>
> I cannot find Performance & Maintenance, no Drive Settings, no slider
> anywhere. System searches don't help. I've found nothing Googling that
> tells me where Drive Settings are.
>

You're posting in a newsgroup for the Windows XP operating system. Those
instructions are (sort of) for the Windows Vista operating system. What are
you trying to do? To get to the System applet just open up Control Panel and
double-click on System.

To do disk management, just go to Control Panel>Administrative
Tools>Computer Management>Disk Management.

If you want help, tell us your end goal.

Malke
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"David B." wrote in message

> Provide a link to the article, those instructions are not correct or your
> reading them wrong.
>
> --
>
>
> ------
> "JimL" wrote in message

>> XP Pro SP3 up to the minute updates
>>
>> I'm looking at a Micrisoft Help that tells me go to:
>>
>> Start -> Control Panel -> Performance and Maintenance -> System ->
>> Drive -> Settings
>>
>> It insructs me to set a usage slider.
>>
>> I have available:
>>
>> Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> System
>>
>> I cannot find Performance & Maintenance, no Drive Settings, no slider
>> anywhere. System searches don't help. I've found nothing Googling that
>> tells me where Drive Settings are.
>>
>> --
>> JimL
>>
>> All pictures must wiggle! Winstyn Churchhill
>>
>
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"Malke" wrote in message

> JimL wrote:
>
>> XP Pro SP3 up to the minute updates
>>
>> I'm looking at a Micrisoft Help that tells me go to:
>>
>> Start -> Control Panel -> Performance and Maintenance -> System -> Drive
>> -> Settings
>>
>> It insructs me to set a usage slider.
>>
>> I have available:
>>
>> Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> System
>>
>> I cannot find Performance & Maintenance, no Drive Settings, no slider
>> anywhere. System searches don't help. I've found nothing Googling that
>> tells me where Drive Settings are.
>>
>
> You're posting in a newsgroup for the Windows XP operating system. Those
> instructions are (sort of) for the Windows Vista operating system. What
> are
> you trying to do? To get to the System applet just open up Control Panel
> and
> double-click on System.
>
> To do disk management, just go to Control Panel>Administrative
> Tools>Computer Management>Disk Management.
>
> If you want help, tell us your end goal.

While researching a problem (already solved) I ran across the references, on
an XP page at Microsoft, to "Performance & Maintenance" and "Drive
settings." As I said, I couldn't find those things on my XP computer. I
brought the issue here - to an XP group. What's the infraction?
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JimL wrote:


> While researching a problem (already solved) I ran across the references,
> on
> an XP page at Microsoft, to "Performance & Maintenance" and "Drive
> settings." As I said, I couldn't find those things on my XP computer. I
> brought the issue here - to an XP group. What's the infraction?
>

There is no "infraction" as such although you are definitely easing into a
category that I call "not really a true troll but definitely a nuisance". You
didn't communicate clearly what you were trying to do or what you wanted to
know. People who started out favorably disposed to help you tried to get you
to clarify what you needed. I suspect the difference between what you read in
the KB article and what you see is that the way you have your computer set
up produces a different view than that assumed in the MS article. I don't
know and I'm not going to take the time to turn on an XP box and read the
article cited to figure out the answer to a problem that is already solved. I
would rather spend my time helping people solve immediate issues in their
computing lives.

EOT for me.

Malke
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JimL wrote:
> [URL="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/getstarted/ballew_03may19.mspx"]http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/getstarted/ballew_03may19.mspx[/URL]
>
> "David B." wrote in message

>> Provide a link to the article, those instructions are not correct or your
>> reading them wrong.
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>> ------
>> "JimL" wrote in message
>
>>> XP Pro SP3 up to the minute updates
>>>
>>> I'm looking at a Micrisoft Help that tells me go to:
>>>
>>> Start -> Control Panel -> Performance and Maintenance -> System ->
>>> Drive -> Settings
>>>
>>> It insructs me to set a usage slider.
>>>
>>> I have available:
>>>
>>> Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> System
>>>
>>> I cannot find Performance & Maintenance, no Drive Settings, no slider
>>> anywhere. System searches don't help. I've found nothing Googling that
>>> tells me where Drive Settings are.
>>>
>>> --
>>> JimL
>>>
>>> All pictures must wiggle! Winstyn Churchhill
>>>
>
>
>
I hardly ever work in fractions any more, everything I do is in
decimals. 1/2 is .50, 7/8 is .875 so I can't help you with your question
about in fraction. Sorry.

I'm using XP home edition SP3 but it's set up for the classic windows view.

On my system it's: Start > Settings > Control Panel

But I have a Control Panel shortcut on my desktop so I use that.

In Control Panel, I don't have a Performance and Maintenance icon.

In Control Panel, I select System, which takes me to the System
Properties and then I select the System Restore tab. Highlight a drive
by clicking on it and click on Settings and there is your little slider!
You can change the settings for each drive. Is this what you were
looking for?

In the future, when you have a question about something you read
somewhere, why not post a link to what you were looking at? That way
we're all starting at the same point.
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On Aug 29, 9:56 pm, "JimL" wrote:
> [URL="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/getstarted/ba..."]http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/getstarted/ba...[/URL]
>
> "David B." wrote in message
>

>
>
>
>
>
> > Provide a link to the article, those instructions are not correct or your
> > reading them wrong.
>
> > --
>
> > ------
> > "JimL" wrote in message
>
> >> XP Pro SP3 up to the minute updates
>
> >> I'm looking at a Micrisoft Help that tells me go to:
>
> >> Start -> Control Panel -> Performance and Maintenance -> System ->
> >> Drive -> Settings
>
> >> It insructs me to set a usage slider.
>
> >> I have available:
>
> >> Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> System
>
> >> I cannot find Performance & Maintenance, no Drive Settings, no slider
> >> anywhere.  System searches don't help.  I've found nothing Googling that
> >> tells me where Drive Settings are.
>
> >> --
> >> JimL
>
> >> All pictures must wiggle! Winstyn Churchhill
>
> --
> JimL
>
> All pictures must wiggle! Winstyn Churchhill

Those directions make sense if you run Windows Explorer
(explorer.exe), expand My Computer, the click Control Panel.

You know those Windows people and their silly exploring thing...
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On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:52:05 -0400, JimL wrote:

> XP Pro SP3 up to the minute updates
>
> I'm looking at a Micrisoft Help that tells me go to:
>
> Start -> Control Panel -> Performance and Maintenance -> System -> Drive ->
> Settings
>
> It insructs me to set a usage slider.
>
> I have available:
>
> Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> System
>
> I cannot find Performance & Maintenance, no Drive Settings, no slider
> anywhere. System searches don't help. I've found nothing Googling that
> tells me where Drive Settings are.

For future reference, "Performance & Maintenance" is only visible in Control
Panel "Category View". If you switch to Control Panel "Classic View" you
won't see "Performance and Maintenance".

To get to "System" from the "Classic View", look for the icon labeled,
"System" in that view. Same menu pops up. Labeled, "System Properties".

FWIW, there is also a keyboard shortcut which takes you "there" ("System
Properties"):

[Windows] key + [Break] key.

The [Windows] keys are flanking the [Alt] keys on my keyboard.
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N. Miller wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:52:05 -0400, JimL wrote:
>
>> XP Pro SP3 up to the minute updates
>>
>> I'm looking at a Micrisoft Help that tells me go to:
>>
>> Start -> Control Panel -> Performance and Maintenance -> System -> Drive ->
>> Settings
>>
>> It insructs me to set a usage slider.
>>
>> I have available:
>>
>> Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> System
>>
>> I cannot find Performance & Maintenance, no Drive Settings, no slider
>> anywhere. System searches don't help. I've found nothing Googling that
>> tells me where Drive Settings are.
>
> For future reference, "Performance & Maintenance" is only visible in Control
> Panel "Category View". If you switch to Control Panel "Classic View" you
> won't see "Performance and Maintenance".
>
> To get to "System" from the "Classic View", look for the icon labeled,
> "System" in that view. Same menu pops up. Labeled, "System Properties".
>
> FWIW, there is also a keyboard shortcut which takes you "there" ("System
> Properties"):
>
> [Windows] key + [Break] key.
>
> The [Windows] keys are flanking the [Alt] keys on my keyboard.
>

Great keyboard shortcut. Thanks!
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"Malke" wrote in message


> You didn't communicate clearly what you were trying to do or

As I said, I already did what I was trying to do - but you don't need to
know that, since I wasn't asking about it.

> what you wanted to know.

If I knew the answer I wouldn't be asking, now would I.

So why are you complaining about a question you thought I should have
asked?

I asked a question _about_ something and you're complaining that it wasn't
technical enough.

It strikes me that the amount of _complaining about_ questions here takes up
more time and energy than answering them.

I asked about something that seemed to be missing from my XP.

Let me repeat that.

I asked about something that seemed to be missing from my XP.

Why the ____ should that be a crime??

(I had already asked about the base issue and got nothing, so I spent 3
weeks digging up an answer. Saved god a lot of time didn't it!!)
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"N. Miller" wrote in message

> On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:52:05 -0400, JimL wrote:
>
>> XP Pro SP3 up to the minute updates
>>
>> I'm looking at a Micrisoft Help that tells me go to:
>>
>> Start -> Control Panel -> Performance and Maintenance -> System ->
>> Drive ->
>> Settings
>>
>> It insructs me to set a usage slider.
>>
>> I have available:
>>
>> Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> System
>>
>> I cannot find Performance & Maintenance, no Drive Settings, no slider
>> anywhere. System searches don't help. I've found nothing Googling that
>> tells me where Drive Settings are.
>
> For future reference, "Performance & Maintenance" is only visible in
> Control
> Panel "Category View". If you switch to Control Panel "Classic View" you
> won't see "Performance and Maintenance".

Thank you very much for a real answer!

Is it possible to change Control Panel from Classical without changing
everything? I couldn't find a way.

> [Windows] key + [Break] key.
>
> The [Windows] keys are flanking the [Alt] keys on my keyboard.

Thanks, but this laptop has no Windows keys.
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"JimL" wrote in message
>>> XP Pro SP3 up to the minute updates
>>>
>>> I'm looking at a Micrisoft Help that tells me go to:
>>>
>>> Start -> Control Panel -> Performance and Maintenance -> System ->
>>> Drive ->
>>> Settings
>>>
>>> It insructs me to set a usage slider.
>>>
>>> I have available:
>>>
>>> Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> System
>>>
>>> I cannot find Performance & Maintenance, no Drive Settings, no
>>> slider anywhere. System searches don't help. I've found nothing
>>> Googling that tells me where Drive Settings are.
>>
....

Good grief! You're sure getting a runaround from people, aren't you?

AS someone else said, Performance and Maintenance isn't visible in the
Classic mode. But that's not what you asked, was it? You don't need to
switch back and forth, just read on for what I think you're looking for.

Are you trying to get to Disk Management?

There are a few different ways to access Disk Management:

This is the most direct method:

Method 1 - Click Start; Run; and type diskmgmt.msc in the Open:
line and click OK. The Disk Management snap-in will open.
OR,

Method 2 - Click: Start; Settings; Control Panel; Administrative
Tools; Computer Management; Disk Management.
OR,

Method 3 - By default, Administrative Tools is not shown on the Start
Menu but if you have modified the Start Menu (by right clicking the
Start button and selecting Properties > Customize) so it is shown then
just select Start > Administrative Tools > Computer Management and then
click Disk Management in the left hand column.

From there I'll assume you know what you need since you gave no further
inferences.

If you'll have to use Disk Management periodically, it's worth creating
a shortcut to go directly to it. Just right click the filename and
click Send To and choose Desktop (shortcut) from the menu. It'll drop a
shortcut on the desktop and then you can store it wherever you'd like
to.


If that's not what you're looking for, re-ask the question here and see
if you can clarify it further. What you're trying to accomplish would
be a good idea to post since as is often the case with windows there are
several ways to do the same thing.

Please let us know if this was what you needed.

HTH,

Twayne`
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Twayne wrote:
> "JimL" wrote in message
>
>>>> XP Pro SP3 up to the minute updates
>>>>
>>>> I'm looking at a Micrisoft Help that tells me go to:
>>>>
>>>> Start -> Control Panel -> Performance and Maintenance -> System ->
>>>> Drive ->
>>>> Settings
>>>>
>>>> It insructs me to set a usage slider.
>>>>
>>>> I have available:
>>>>
>>>> Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> System
>>>>
>>>> I cannot find Performance & Maintenance, no Drive Settings, no
>>>> slider anywhere. System searches don't help. I've found nothing
>>>> Googling that tells me where Drive Settings are.
> ...
>
> Good grief! You're sure getting a runaround from people, aren't you?

Good grief! Maybe you should read the thread again, he was trying to
set the System Restore disk space usage! He was simply misreading the
instructions.
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"John John - MVP" wrote in message
> Twayne wrote:
>> "JimL" wrote in message
>>
>>>>> XP Pro SP3 up to the minute updates
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm looking at a Micrisoft Help that tells me go to:
>>>>>
>>>>> Start -> Control Panel -> Performance and Maintenance -> System ->
>>>>> Drive ->
>>>>> Settings
>>>>>
>>>>> It insructs me to set a usage slider.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have available:
>>>>>
>>>>> Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> System
>>>>>
>>>>> I cannot find Performance & Maintenance, no Drive Settings, no
>>>>> slider anywhere. System searches don't help. I've found nothing
>>>>> Googling that tells me where Drive Settings are.
>> ...
>>
>> Good grief! You're sure getting a runaround from people, aren't you?
>
> Good grief! Maybe you should read the thread again, he was trying to
> set the System Restore disk space usage! He was simply misreading the
> instructions.

Then why didn't you provide the specifics that were needed?

Unlike you, I also ASKED if I'd interpreted it right, and suggested a
return if it was wrong. Of course, you chose to snip anything that
might have showed that; but that's you MO; nothing new there. So perhaps
it is you should go reread.

Twayne
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